akçe

• akche, akcheh

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آقچه (akça, akçe) (compare Turkish akçe).

akçe (plural akçes)

2. (historical) A silver coin minted during the Ottoman Empire, valued at one-third of a para.
   • 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 209:

     Worth the sum of two thousand two hundred akches, this is all a final gift to the said maiden if he fails to marry her within the appointed period of time.

   • 2011, Christine Woodhead, editor, The Ottoman World:

     The corvée is an archaic feature, absent from later statutes, but the notion that 50 akçes was the rate of compensation due for loss of tithes lingered.

• ecka, cake, EAKC, ace K

• akça

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آقچه (aḳça, “silver money, coin, a third part of a para, anciently a real coin of much greater value and a day's pay for a soldier, now a mere money of account”),^[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *āk (“white”).^[2][3] Morphologically ak +‎ -çe. Cognate with Tatar акча (aqça), Bashkir аҡса (aqsa), Kyrgyz акча (akca), Southern Altai акча (akča), Kumyk акъча (aqça), Karachay-Balkar ахча (axça), Crimean Tatar aqça, Kazakh ақша (aqşa), Khakas ахча (axça), Shor ақча, Tuvan акша (akşa, “money”), Chuvash укҫа (ukśa, “coin”), etc.

• IPA^(key): /akˈt͡ʃe/

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• Hyphenation: ak‧çe

akçe (definite accusative akçeyi, plural akçeler)

1. (historical) A small silver coin
2. any coin
3. (by extension) money

• “akçe”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “akçe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 167